Center for a Livable Future

Our CLF Spring Newsletter is out now! For CLF this year, renewal has meant homecoming. We have moved our offices back to the School’s Wolfe Street Building. Explore our recent projects and media mentions. https://mailchi.mp/jhu/the-clf-quarterly-spring2026?e=8f7504384e

Professor Roni Neff led her Baltimore Food Systems class on a field trip to Albright Farms and Prigel Family Creamery. Students gained firsthand insights into sustainable farming practices, animal care, and the business of food.

In early May, CLF’s Philip McNab and Roni Neff supported Master of Public Health students during the annual MPH Capstone presentations.

A former federal meat inspector warns that a Trump-era USDA proposal to speed up slaughterhouses could mean more worker injuries, more contamination, and heavier pollution in already-burdened communities. CLF’s Patti Truant Anderson estimates the increase in poultry production alone would need an extra 114 billion liters of water each year and generate about 2 billion kg of CO2. Read more:

'A matter of life and death': USDA proposal draws concern from former inspectors "We need advocates and real laws that have teeth."

After 12 years of quietly building strong food systems, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks (FPN) project is becoming an independent entity. Since 2013, FPN has supported food policy councils through deep listening, research, and trust-building—creating space for collaboration and lasting change across the U.S. We celebrate this next chapter as the project evolves into a new kind of network with an enhanced mission. Learn more https://clf.jhsph.edu/stories/fpn-project-12-years-democracy-action